Cynthia Radding is Professor of History and Director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700–1850, also published by Duke University Press.

• List of Illustrations ixAbbreviations xiiiPreface xvAcknowledgments xxiIntroduction. Savannas and Deserts: Two Histories of Cultural Landscapes 11. Ecological and Cultural Frontiers in Sonora and Chiquitos 192. Political Economy: Communities, Missions, and Colonial Markets 553. Territory: Community and Conflicting Claims to Property 894. Ethnic Mosaics and Gendered Identities 1175. Power Negotiated, Power Defied: Politial Culture, Governance, and Mobilization 1626. Priests and Shamans: Spiritual Power, Ritual, and Knowledge 1967. Postcolonial Landscapes: Transitions from Colony to Republic 2408. Contested Landscapes in Continental Borderlands 295Notes 327Glossary 375Bibliography 385Index 423

“There has been much talk about comparative history but precious little of it in the Spanish colonial period. Cynthia Radding has led the way.”- David J. Weber, Director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University “This is a beautifully written comparative frontier history that balances in-depth historical analysis of two relatively unexplored regions on the edge of the Spanish empire against broader insights into the active role that ecologies played in shaping the contours of European-indigenous encounters and processes of colonization over long periods of time. With this book, Cynthia Radding takes the ‘new environmental history’ of conquest and colonization to a new level.”-Brooke Larson, author of Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910 “Carefully researched and clearly written, Landscapes of Power and Identity provides an illuminating comparison of the environmental history of Spanish colonialism. . . . Landscapes of Power and Identity will be an illuminating read for specialists in a variety of fields including environmental history, borderlands history, and Spanish colonial history and a model for all those scholars interested in pursuing comparative history.” - Rachel St. John (Western Historical Quarterly)

Cynthia Radding is Professor of History and Director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700–1850, also published by Duke University Press.

• List of Illustrations ixAbbreviations xiiiPreface xvAcknowledgments xxiIntroduction. Savannas and Deserts: Two Histories of Cultural Landscapes 11. Ecological and Cultural Frontiers in Sonora and Chiquitos 192. Political Economy: Communities, Missions, and Colonial Markets 553. Territory: Community and Conflicting Claims to Property 894. Ethnic Mosaics and Gendered Identities 1175. Power Negotiated, Power Defied: Politial Culture, Governance, and Mobilization 1626. Priests and Shamans: Spiritual Power, Ritual, and Knowledge 1967. Postcolonial Landscapes: Transitions from Colony to Republic 2408. Contested Landscapes in Continental Borderlands 295Notes 327Glossary 375Bibliography 385Index 423

“There has been much talk about comparative history but precious little of it in the Spanish colonial period. Cynthia Radding has led the way.”- David J. Weber, Director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University “This is a beautifully written comparative frontier history that balances in-depth historical analysis of two relatively unexplored regions on the edge of the Spanish empire against broader insights into the active role that ecologies played in shaping the contours of European-indigenous encounters and processes of colonization over long periods of time. With this book, Cynthia Radding takes the ‘new environmental history’ of conquest and colonization to a new level.”-Brooke Larson, author of Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910 “Carefully researched and clearly written, Landscapes of Power and Identity provides an illuminating comparison of the environmental history of Spanish colonialism. . . . Landscapes of Power and Identity will be an illuminating read for specialists in a variety of fields including environmental history, borderlands history, and Spanish colonial history and a model for all those scholars interested in pursuing comparative history.” - Rachel St. John (Western Historical Quarterly)

Cynthia Radding is Professor of History and Director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700–1850, also published by Duke University Press.

• List of Illustrations ixAbbreviations xiiiPreface xvAcknowledgments xxiIntroduction. Savannas and Deserts: Two Histories of Cultural Landscapes 11. Ecological and Cultural Frontiers in Sonora and Chiquitos 192. Political Economy: Communities, Missions, and Colonial Markets 553. Territory: Community and Conflicting Claims to Property 894. Ethnic Mosaics and Gendered Identities 1175. Power Negotiated, Power Defied: Politial Culture, Governance, and Mobilization 1626. Priests and Shamans: Spiritual Power, Ritual, and Knowledge 1967. Postcolonial Landscapes: Transitions from Colony to Republic 2408. Contested Landscapes in Continental Borderlands 295Notes 327Glossary 375Bibliography 385Index 423

“There has been much talk about comparative history but precious little of it in the Spanish colonial period. Cynthia Radding has led the way.”- David J. Weber, Director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University “This is a beautifully written comparative frontier history that balances in-depth historical analysis of two relatively unexplored regions on the edge of the Spanish empire against broader insights into the active role that ecologies played in shaping the contours of European-indigenous encounters and processes of colonization over long periods of time. With this book, Cynthia Radding takes the ‘new environmental history’ of conquest and colonization to a new level.”-Brooke Larson, author of Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910 “Carefully researched and clearly written, Landscapes of Power and Identity provides an illuminating comparison of the environmental history of Spanish colonialism. . . . Landscapes of Power and Identity will be an illuminating read for specialists in a variety of fields including environmental history, borderlands history, and Spanish colonial history and a model for all those scholars interested in pursuing comparative history.” - Rachel St. John (Western Historical Quarterly)